46Synonyms found for fantastic

Word Origin & History

fantastic late 14c., "existing only in imagination," from O.Fr. fantastique, from L.L. phantasticus "imaginary," from Gk. phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"); see fantasy. Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" first recorded 1938.

Example Sentences for fantastic

His works are distinguished by fantastic speculation rather than by scientific method.

He is best known as an author of fantastic fairy tales and even more fantastic plays.

Yet this manifesto is less fantastic than some books thick with academic learning.

It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be.

Other early engravings are more fantastic and less significant of cruelty.

Maybe nowadays modern people could not create such fantastic architecture.

But that system, for all its efficiency, fails to exploit the fantastic genetic diversity of wheat.

He plays jazz piano nightly, and the food is fantastic.

Though fantastic and riveting as her stories may be, her life itself is so much more interesting and full of mystery.